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17 September 201817 September 2018

Experimenting Mail Art / Sperimentando l’Arte Postale

EN – After a period of “artistic rest” due to other commitments and before returning to my projects, to take up the brushes I followed the invitation of a new friend and I experimented with mail art, making some 10×15 cm postcards for Mail Art Calls.
I made two postcards with mosaic landscapes for the Mail Art Project “Landscapes” (remebering Silvano Drei) (expiring 28 February 2019), an interpretation of the landscape that I used for the background of some of my works dedicated in particular to the Pictish culture, and not by chance they both depict Scottish landscapes.

EN – Two other works have taken the road of France, for the Mail Art Call of the Association des Talents Cachés des Pradettes of Toulouse, with the theme “DIX” (send in time for 20 January 2019), where instead I returned to my figurative style.

EN – A couple in the moonlight is the protagonist of the postcard for the Mail art call: The moon / La luna (expiring on 31st August 2019) of the Casa Museo Bendandi in Faenza, where I believe for the first time I have experimented the use of different colors for the skin of the figures, to emphasize the atmosphere of the moonlight.
It was interesting to work in a smaller format than usual, despite having some difficulty with the Fabriano cold pressed paper for postcards, for a different absorption and spreading of the Ecoline compared to the Arches hot pressed paper which I am used to. A problem that the postcards present is also the risk that along the edges the colors can transfer to already colored areas, or be absorbed more fastly, which does not happen with single sheets and glued blocks, I accept advice on paper / blocks for postcards with the finer grain possible, or better hot pressed, which do not absorb the color too quickly! (about this, if by chance anyone has tried the Jackson’s watercolour postcard pad let me know your impressions)